I am a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where I work with the literary perceptions and productions of nature in Norway in the 19th century.
I am generally interested in the ways literature can partake in, and may form, society. In addition to my academic work, I have organised literary and cultural festivals and worked with literary criticism and presentation of literature for a general public.
Department of Language and Literature
Dragvoll Campus
Building 3
N-7049 Trondheim
Norway
hanna.m.lindberg[at]ntnu.no
Is it possible to explore how literature shapes national conceptions of nature? My PhD project arises from this question, and will combine literature geography, cultural memory studies, and digital humanities to examine how nature is constructed in the literature of Norway from 1814 to 1871. How are different nature types valued as regard to nation building – be it as an economic, or symbolic, asset? Which nature types received particular attention in the period, and what access does literature provide us in understanding and evaluating them? What changes and trends can we observe over time? Are there any lasting, shared representations of nature that we might call national, and can we trace their origins in the literature of this period?
As part of the research group ImagiNation I’m working with the digitized data from the National Library, and using digital humanities to track larger trends in the material. The research group is trying to get an image of how the Norwegian geographies are resented and imagined in the period from our constitution in 1814 to the dissolution of the union with Sweden in 1905.
My PhD project has two primary goals:
Paper presentation at the PhD and Research Seminar Narratives. The story of how a literary concept grew interdisciplinary, organised by Text, Image, Sound, Space (TBLR) – Norwegian Researcher Training School, Centre Univarsitaire de Norvège à Paris, January 31.- February 2, 2024
Participation in the Authoritative Texts and Their Receptions (ATTR) Research School’s Spring Seminar on Digital Humanities, Athens, March 13-17, 2023.
